5 Lessons Learned: Navigating the Disrupted Medical Device Manufacturing Supply Chain

A lack of a specialized label is all it takes to halt the production of a medical device. While those of us in medical device manufacturing were aware of this fact, we became acutely experienced with scarcity and supply chain disruptions as a result of the global pandemic, including shipments of lifesaving medical devices delayed because of a quality issue and upstream material shortages. Now into the third year of the effects of the pandemic, the supply chain issues remain and may grow worse again as new disruptions present themselves.